Gingham-exhibitor



(No' Model.)

M. UMSTADTER.

GINGHAM EXHIBITOR.

Patented Dec. 8, 1885.

W i i? 1 A JM/vewlioz UNITED STATES PATENT @FFTCEO MICHAEL UMSTADTER', OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

GlNGHAM-EXHEBITOR.

.zPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,850, dated December 8, 1885.

Application filed March 3, 1585.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MIoHAEL Unsranrnn, a citizen of the United States, and residing in Norfolk, State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gingham- Exhibitors, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description and specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, the same forming part of this specification.

My invention has for its object to provide a holder and exhibitor for ginghams and similar goods rolled in flat rolls, as on boards, which shall securely and compactly hold the rolls of goods,each independently of anysupport derived from the other rolls, and exhibit enough of each roll to show its pattern, and this in such a way that any one of the rolls can be removed from the exhibitor without disturbing any other roll.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view, and Fig. 2 a front view, of my improved exhibitor in use; and Figs. 3 and 4 are enlarged detail views.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts.

A is a stand or frame, which forms the body of the holder or exhibitor. It may be provided with a hinged rear standard or brace, as shown in the drawings, or it may be permanently secured in any desired position. In this frame A is secured a series of pairs of arms, B, which arms have a straight portion that is inclined with reference to the plane of the frame A, substantially as shown in the drawings, and is a littlelonger than the width of the rolls to be exhibited, and which arms are recurred at their front ends to hold the rolls and prevent their being too readily taken out, and are arranged, the series in pairs, the arms of each pair being a little nearer together than the length of the rolls to be exhibited, and the series of pairs arranged one above another at such distance apart as to exhibit a portion of each roll of goods toward the front of the exhibitor, asshown in Fig. 2.

The particular shape of the arm B and manner of securing it in the frame A, which I prefer, is shown in detail in the drawings. Fig. 3 shows the arms Bin detail. They are Serial No. 157,621. (No model.)

made of wire, three -sixteenths of an inch square, and have a recurvcd forward end, B, are bent or curved, as shown at B and are right angled at B The frame A, Ipreferably make as shown in the drawings, Fig. 4. G is central board, of inch plank and of suitable width. Two grooves, s s, are out along the back corners of the edges of the board three-sixteenths of an inch square in cross section, and a series of perforations, p p, are cut at right angles to these slots through the rest of the thickness of the board 0, threesixteenths of an inch square in cross-section, and the distance apart up and down the board O which it is desired the arms B to stand apart from each other,and arranged in pairs, as the arms B are to be arranged. The rightangled part of each arm B is then introduced from the side into a perforation p and slot 8, where it will exactly lit and be snugly seated, and be flush with the back and edge of the board 0. All of the arms being so introduced, the securing-strips D D are applied to the side edges of the board O, and are screwed down tight, or otherwise properly secured in place.

In use the rolls 6 of gingham are slid up between the arms B and allowed to drop into the positions indicated in Fig. 1. In those positions they are securely held independently of each other, and in such a way as to exhibit a considerable portion of the roll, and still they cannot be removed without first pushing them back in against the board 0, and then raising the front edge of the roll. The ex hibiior is thus a partial protection against thievery, while the rolls are removable with sufficient readiness when handled in the proper way.

I do not herein claim, broadly, any combination of frame with supporting-hooks in seriessuch, for instance, as is shown in patent to Browne, No. 183,899, October 31, 1876 but only the arms B, and. those arms only when arranged in the peculiar series shown, in which one arm overlies or overlaps a large part of the next lower arm, and thereby the rolls of goods are prevented from being too readily removed from the exhibitor, while still effectually exhibited.

place, substantially as and for the purposes 1 set forth.

2. The board 0, having slotss sfand series of perforations 11, combined with a series of pairs of arms, B, recurved at B, curved at I 5 B, and bent at a right angle at B and the securing-strips D D, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

MICHAEL UMSTADTER.

Witnesses:

XV. H. KENYON, EDWIN SEGER. 

